Erin go braugh!

[Rowdyboy]

I have only a few moments left to congratulate my brothers and sisters from the mother country.

"Maireann croi edrom i bfhad" translation "a light heart lives longest"

and

"Coimhead fearg fhear na foighde" translation "Beware the anger of a patient man"

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Now if you'll be up to puttin' in the pronunciation ...

Take a look at what you was just after postin'.

bfhad? foighde? Irish Gaelic, or Klingon is it?

Sure 'twill be a blessing if you were to put in a pronunciation guide. Little wonder the British set upon the Emerald Isle so! And for the Catholics and the Protestants, who's to be sayin' somebody didn't drop an "h" and change the whole meanin' of a phrase? From, "How much would be wantin' for a keg of Guinness?" to "Your sister has sodomite relations with the Pope of Rome".

--bfhkmhhflfhoighmh

[Rowdyboy]

2. Sure, and as God as my witness I meant no harm

My Gaelic is about as good as my English, and thats not saying an awful lot.

But, I meant well. I truly did mean well!

What can I say, my grandad was from Killarny and my grandmam was Bajoran. They called her Ro Laren...

[eileen from OH]

3. "Ah, shut your gob."

Sez me folks from Tipperary. Of course they said this to just about everyone.

eileen from OH

[Dogmudgeon]

5. Hold your peace, woman

Here and I'm after apologisin' to Rowdyboy an' what!

Yer Ma and yer Da from Tipperary, were they now? Nice town, Tipperary is, even though Cork never fails to outrank them in the FA Cup standin's.

Ah, but football's for the kids. Tonight, everybody's after bein' Irish. 'Cept I could do without that stonkered son-of-a-Brit bein' Irish. The boy's daft, he is. I'd say he's a couple of peat bricks short of a shanty, all's the better for the peat. An' do you know, in Americay, they give boys like that firearms? Not even DeValera himself, Lord keep his soul, would'a thought that a wise thing to be doin'.

A kiss on the lovely Irish cheek of Eileen, an' Bartender! The drinks are on me! And make sure to be ringin' it up to Halliburton's tab, will be so kind to, now?

--bfhkmhhflfhoighmh
Now, Oscar Wilde, there was an Irishman!

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Now don't be sayin' a novena on my account ...

We all appreciate learnin' somethin' new, especially learnin' after Ireland. And it's no fault of your'n that the Irish Gaelic orthography makes a man use as many letters as there'd be children in the McGlinchey clan.

It makes me think that the Devil himself designed the writin' for Irish Gaelic. The Devil, or maybe Maggie Thatcher her own keenyin' self.

Me own folks were from Cork. Well, 'twas me Ma's folks. Me Da was a Hebrew what come from Russia. Or rather, his Da was. And as for your grandmam's home, I never did hear of no place called "Bajor". It wouldn't be on the north side of the Orange Line, would it now? Not that I'm one to discriminate, mind ye. Father Kelly would sure and be tearin' me a new one, and he was a Golden Gloves champ when he was in Divinity School.

So don't you go mindin' me helpin' the wind out with me fookin' gob an' what. A good St. Paddy's Day to you and yours, and all the little letters ye and the missus are after havin' to use to spell their names with.

And maybe sainted old Paddy himself will keep George Bush an' t' other new snakes from settin' foot on our dear lovely island.

--bfhkmhhflfhoighmh